'acceptInsecureCerts' Argument for Start-SeFirefox?

[aescolastico]

Is this an available option?

[itfranck]

@aescolastico

As far as I know, it is not possible with V3.
V4 do not support that with a simple switch but is much more flexible when it comes to access stuff under the hood.

In V4, you'd start the browser in the following manner:

Start-SeDriver -Browser Firefox -StartURL 'https://self-signed.badssl.com/'

At that point though, you would get the certificate error.
To go around that and by looking at Selenium Firefox documentation, you can bypass insecure certificate warning by adding a capability to your driver options. V4 do have a function New-SeDriverOptions to expose it.
From there, you can modify the option accordingly and start the browser.

Here is the relevant code.

$Options = New-SeDriverOptions -Browser Firefox
$Options.AddAdditionalCapability([OpenQA.Selenium.Remote.CapabilityType]::AcceptInsecureCertificates, $true,$true)
$Options.ToCapabilities()
Start-SeDriver -Browser Firefox -Options $Options -StartURL 'https://self-signed.badssl.com/'

Note that while testing this, I found an issue (#191) that will prevent this from working in V4.0-preview1.
It is fixed for Preview2 and will work properly (Release is planned within the next 14 days).

V4 is a major rewrite from V3 though and if you had working V3 scripts, there will definitely be rework to make them V4 compliant.

[itfranck]

I'll keep this issue open until V4.0.0-Preview2 is released

[itfranck]

It looks like at least Chrome support that too.
Therefore, I'll add a switch so you can do :

Start-SeDriver -Browser Firefox -StartURL 'https://self-signed.badssl.com/' -AcceptInsecureCertificates

The New-SeDriverOptions is still useful for anything not implemented directly but in this case, it make sense to add it in the Start-SeDriver switches.

[itfranck]

Done.

In v4.0-preview2, you'll be able to use :

Start-SeDriver -Browser Edge -StartURL 'https://self-signed.badssl.com/' -AcceptInsecureCertificates

I'll publish a release by Dec. 7th end of day.